In new court case, data firms claim First Amendment right to track your license plate
Source: PandoDaily
... This most recent expansion of the panopticon might be a step too far. Fearing a public backlash, the Department of Homeland Security momentarily suspended those plans for a national license plate tracking system after it was publicized this week. Meanwhile, some states have been working in tandem with groups like the American Civil Liberties Union to pass laws to prevent private corporations from mass photographing license plate data and then selling it to law enforcement agencies and private companies.
But that pushback is itself now facing legal pushback from the data collecting corporations at the center of the debate – and the ultimate outcome could determine whether this branch of the panopticon is officially protected by the First Amendment.
In a federal lawsuit filed last week against the state of Utah, Digital Recognition Network, Inc. and Vigilant Solutions are attempting to appropriate the ACLU’s own pro-free-speech arguments for themselves. They argue that a recent Utah law banning them from using automated high-speed cameras to collect images, locations and times of license plates is a violation of their own First Amendment rights.
Really.
Read more: http://pando.com/2014/02/20/in-new-court-case-data-firms-claim-first-amendment-right-to-track-your-license-plate/
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